Z Translator

Z Translator turns hovering into instant offline translation.

Hover any English or Arabic word on any webpage and a compact tooltip appears beside it with the translation in the other language. Click the speaker icon, or enable speak-on-hover, to hear the word read aloud using your browser and operating system voices.

▸ Truly offline: translation never leaves your device. The dictionary ships with the extension as local JSON files; nothing is uploaded, queried, or transmitted.
▸ Bidirectional auto-detect: no direction switch needed. Hover an English word to see Arabic; hover an Arabic word to see English.
▸ 87,000+ entries: built from FreeDict eng-ara and ara-eng dictionary data, with license information and source links provided, plus a curated supplement for common Arabic words.
▸ Smarter word handling: supports suffixes, contractions, hyphenated words, proper names, numbers, percentages, and currency values.
▸ Arabic-aware lookup: handles common Arabic prefixes, pronoun suffixes, broken plurals, and alef/ya variants.
▸ Native voices: uses the browser Web Speech API. On Windows this can include voices such as Microsoft David, Zira, Mark, and Naayf; on macOS this can include Samantha, Alex, Daniel, and other installed voices. Voices marked with ☁ may require an internet connection; local voices stay offline.
▸ Designed with care: light and dark themes auto-adapt, the popup supports English and Arabic UI, and trigger options include Hover, Alt / Option, Ctrl / Cmd, and Shift.
▸ Privacy-respecting by design: no tracking, no analytics, no telemetry, no cookies, no fingerprinting, no account, and no email required. Privacy policy: https://zaidalhulaiba.com/z-translator/privacy/
▸ Optional ☕ support: every feature is free, with no premium tier and no ads. The support button opens PayPal in a new tab. It is strictly optional.

How to use:
1. Install the extension and pin it to your toolbar.
2. Visit any webpage with English or Arabic text.
3. Hover a word: the translation appears.
4. Click the speaker icon to hear pronunciation, or enable speak-on-hover.
5. Open the popup to type a word directly, switch theme, choose trigger keys, change voice settings, or override the interface language.

Permissions:
• "Read content of pages you visit": required so the extension can detect the single word your cursor is over. The extension does not extract, transmit, or store page content.
• "Storage": saves your settings, such as voice, theme, hover delay, trigger mode, and language preference, on your device.